Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

UMOD

Uromodulin

Also known as: UROM_HUMAN

Cross-references: UniProt · Ensembl · Human Protein Atlas · GeneCards · NCBI Gene

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
P07911
Gene
UMOD
Ensembl
ENSG00000169344
Chromosome
16
Canonical length
640 aa
Protein class
Disease related genes, Human disease related genes, Plasma proteins, Predicted membrane proteins, Predicted secreted proteins
Secretome location
Secreted in other tissues
Quaternary structure
Homodimer

OverviewNCBI Gene

The protein encoded by this gene is the most abundant protein in mammalian urine under physiological conditions. Its excretion in urine follows proteolytic cleavage of the ectodomain of its glycosyl phosphatidylinosital-anchored counterpart that is situated on the luminal cell surface of the loop of Henle. This protein may act as a constitutive inhibitor of calcium crystallization in renal fluids. Excretion of this protein in urine may provide defense against urinary tract infections caused by uropathogenic bacteria. Defects in this gene are associated with the renal disorders medullary cystic kidney disease-2 (MCKD2), glomerulocystic kidney disease with hyperuricemia and isosthenuria (GCKDHI), and familial juvenile hyperuricemic nephropathy (FJHN). Alternative splicing of this gene results in multiple transcript variants. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2013]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

640 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>P07911|UMOD
     1  MGQPSLTWML MVVVASWFIT TAATDTSEAR WCSECHSNAT CTEDEAVTTC TCQEGFTGDG
    61  LTCVDLDECA IPGAHNCSAN SSCVNTPGSF SCVCPEGFRL SPGLGCTDVD ECAEPGLSHC
   121  HALATCVNVV GSYLCVCPAG YRGDGWHCEC SPGSCGPGLD CVPEGDALVC ADPCQAHRTL
   181  DEYWRSTEYG EGYACDTDLR GWYRFVGQGG ARMAETCVPV LRCNTAAPMW LNGTHPSSDE
   241  GIVSRKACAH WSGHCCLWDA SVQVKACAGG YYVYNLTAPP ECHLAYCTDP SSVEGTCEEC
   301  SIDEDCKSNN GRWHCQCKQD FNITDISLLE HRLECGANDM KVSLGKCQLK SLGFDKVFMY
   361  LSDSRCSGFN DRDNRDWVSV VTPARDGPCG TVLTRNETHA TYSNTLYLAD EIIIRDLNIK
   421  INFACSYPLD MKVSLKTALQ PMVSALNIRV GGTGMFTVRM ALFQTPSYTQ PYQGSSVTLS
   481  TEAFLYVGTM LDGGDLSRFA LLMTNCYATP SSNATDPLKY FIIQDRCPHT RDSTIQVVEN
   541  GESSQGRFSV QMFRFAGNYD LVYLHCEVYL CDTMNEKCKP TCSGTRFRSG SVIDQSRVLN
   601  LGPITRKGVQ ATVSRAFSSL GLLKVWLPLL LSATLTLTFQ

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against UMOD can act on the native protein depends on physical access: surface and secreted proteins are reachable by circulating antibodies, intracellular proteins usually are not.

Antibody reachability
Cell surface
Secreted
No
Transmembrane segments
0
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.34
Highest tissue expression
2,127 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • kidney: 2,127 nTPM
  • pancreas: 4.1 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 2 nTPM
  • stomach: 2 nTPM
  • colon: 1.4 nTPM
  • prostate: 0.8 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • loop of henle epithelial cells: 1,188 nCPM
  • podocytes: 96 nCPM
  • proximal tubule cells: 92 nCPM
  • renal collecting duct intercalated cells: 89 nCPM
  • distal convoluted tubule cells: 77 nCPM
  • renal connecting tubule cells: 61 nCPM

Immune cell

  • basophil: 0 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 0 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 0 nTPM
  • gdT-cell: 0 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 0 nTPM
  • MAIT T-cell: 0 nTPM

Brain region

  • hypothalamus: 0.1 nTPM
  • amygdala: 0 nTPM
  • basal ganglia: 0 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 0 nTPM
  • cerebral cortex: 0 nTPM
  • choroid plexus: 0 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about UMOD.

Disease | AllUniProt

Conditions UMOD is implicated in, by any mechanism.

Disease | GeneticClinVar

106 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 624 ClinVar records.

Conditions with pathogenic or likely-pathogenic variants.

ReferencesPubMed · IEDB

Publications for UMOD from three distinct lines of evidence, kept separate because they answer different questions: whether antibodies are directed at the protein, whether a B-cell epitope has been mapped on it, and whether a T-cell epitope has. Each is labelled with its source.

Sources: PubMed — antigen-level antibody evidence from a custom retrieval. Records matching a controlled set of autoantibody terms (the MeSH descriptors Autoantibodies and Autoantigens, with title and abstract term variants) were obtained through NCBI E-utilities, and their titles and abstracts parsed for constructions that direct an antibody at a named protein rather than for co-occurrence. Captured names were resolved against UniProt nomenclature and each antigen adjudicated individually against the source text. Bibliographic records from PubMed and MeSH, U.S. National Library of Medicine; citation metrics from NIH iCite (Hutchins et al., PLoS Biology 2016). Titles link to PubMed; abstracts are not reproduced here. The NLM does not endorse this analysis.

Genetic constraint and essentialitygnomAD · DepMap

Does the body need this protein intact? Low LOEUF or a strong DepMap dependency means loss or blockade of the protein is likely to be felt.

gnomAD LOEUF (loss-of-function intolerance)
1.25
gnomAD pLI
0
gnomAD missense Z
1
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.04
DepMap dependency class
selective

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 2% of surveyed tumor types (aggregate summary; per-cohort expression, alteration, and survival load in the interactive view).

OntologyGO

Biological processes

Molecular functions

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads UMOD as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against UMOD could matter depends on whether native UMOD is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

UMOD is annotated at the cell surface, where native UMOD is exposed to circulating antibodies and is a prime autoantibody target that could block, deplete, or overstimulate it.

Annotation status

The present source text does not explicitly label UMOD as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/UMOD. Study-independent annotations aggregated from UniProt, Human Protein Atlas, PubMed, IEDB, Pfam, InterPro, Gene Ontology, AlphaFold, gnomAD, DepMap, ClinVar, TCGA. Catalog release seroatlas-reviewed-human-uniprot-20260313.

Seroatlas is the reference for exploring autoantibody and antibody serology at the human-protein level: the autoreactome and human serome, multiplex serology (HuProt, HuScan, VirScan, PhIP-Seq).

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